Thursday, October 19, 2017

Can Somalia Ever Win against Al-Shabaab?

Foreign Policy published on 19 October 2017 a commentary titled "Can Somalia Ever Win against Al-Shabaab?" by Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Institute.

The author concludes that the Somali government must cultivate a credible Islamist constituency of its own, winning over most of the political and financial backers of the Islamic Courts Union, the Islamist movement that briefly took control of much of the country in 2006 and from which al-Shabaab emerged.